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Above the yayla are the turquoise waters of a pretty, snow-rimmed glacial lake and behind it rises 3,752 meter Karadağ, a surprisingly easy day climb.
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South of the Kale Tepe, in a beautifully secluded "yayla", the main area of the settlement was spread out, on its north and south sides contained by mountain flanks, in the west and east by walls in dry rubble.
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Demirli is a secluded yayla, located north of the road from Bağsaray to Akyayla, about 6 km west of the former village.
Territorial Archaeological Survey « Interactive Dig Sagalassos – City in the Clouds 2009
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Demirli is a secluded yayla, located north of the road from Bağsaray to Akyayla, about 6 km west of the former village.
Territorial Archaeological Survey « Interactive Dig Sagalassos – City in the Clouds 2009
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July 2003-July 2009InteractiveDig Sagalassos the basin of Bereket in which the 2008 TAS takes place view from the fortification wall on the Kale Tepe to the yayla below the survey team at work in the Bereket basin
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Life here is lived as it has been for millennia, with the yayla dwellers sleeping in black tents woven from goat hair, milking their livestock a couple of times a day, churning butter in goatskins suspended from a wooden tripod, making cheeses mixed with herbs picked from the mountainsides and baking bread in clay tandir ovens sunk into the ground.
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The best place to absorb the beauty of these wild uplands is the yayla (summer pasture) of Berçelan, around 18 kilometers from the town of Hakkari.
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